1 Peter 2:16

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Live as free people, but don’t use your freedom to cover up evil. Live as people who are God’s slaves.

Cross References

Galatians 5:13

My brothers and sisters, you were called to be free. But don’t use your freedom as an excuse to live under the power of sin. Instead, serve one another humbly in love.

Romans 6:22

But you’ve been set free from sin, and you’ve become slaves of God. You’re gaining a great benefit from that: You’re living in the right way, and the end result will be eternal life.

1 Corinthians 7:22

Someone who was a slave when the Lord called them is now serving the Lord as a free person. But it’s just as true that someone who was free when God called them is now a slave of Christ.

Romans 6:18

You’ve been set free from sin and have become slaves to living in the right way.

Galatians 5:1

Christ has set us free so that we can be free. So stand firm, and don’t let anyone make you a slave again.

James 1:25

But if someone takes a good look at the perfect law that gives freedom, if they keep looking at it and don’t forget what they’ve heard but do it, then that person will be blessed in what they do.

James 2:12

Speak and act like people who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom,

Ephesians 6:6

And don’t obey them just to please them when they’re watching, but in order to do the will of God genuinely, as slaves of Christ.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise to give them freedom, but they themselves are slaves to depravity. That’s because “people are slaves to anything that controls them.”

Colossians 3:24

You know that in the end you’ll receive the reward that the Lord wants you to have. You’re slaves of the Lord Christ.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You don’t enter yourselves, but you won’t let in other people who are trying to enter.

Jude 1:4

Certain people have secretly slipped in among you. Long ago it was written that they would be found guilty. They’re ungodly people who misuse the grace of our God as an excuse for sexual sins. They deny Jesus Christ, our only Lord and King.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

We never used flattery, as you know; we weren’t pretending to just get money from you. God is our witness that this is true.

John 15:22

If I hadn’t come and spoken to them, they wouldn’t be guilty of sin. But now they have no excuse for their sin.